A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The next argument is taken from antiquity, Cyprian Lib. 1. Epist. 4. is very full and plain, for the Churches right and liberty in elections. D. Field Lib. 5. Cap. 54. citeth and Englisheth the words at large, Leo. Epist. 87. Cap. 1. requireth in the Election of Bishops: vota civium, testimonia populorum, Epistola synodalis concilii. Car: bar. Sussitani apud Augustinum, Enar i• Psal: 36. saith, Necesse nos fuerat Primiani causam, quem pleas sa•cta ecclesiae Carthaginensis▪ Episcopum fuerat in ovile dei sortita, seniorum literis ejusdem ecclesiae postulantibus audire atque discutere. The fourth council of Carthage, ⟨p. 17⟩Can. 22. requireth to the admission of every Clergy-man, civium assensum, & testimonium & convenientiam. Socrates lib. 4. cap. 25. recordeth that Ambrose was chosen Bishop of Milan with the uniform voice of the Church; and lib. 6. cap. 2. he recordeth the like concerning the Election of Chrysostom, to be Bishop of Constantinople. Moreover, I find in the pretended Apostolical, but really ancient constitutions, collected by one under the name of Clemens, lib. 8. cap. 4▪ 'tis appointed to ordain a Bishop, thus qualified [Greek or Hebrew], in all things unblamable, one of the best and chosen by all the people, unto whom let the people, being assembled together on the Lords day, with the Presbytery, and the Bishops then present give their consent. Then immediately one of the Bishops asks the Eldership and people, [Greek or Hebrew], if they desire that man to be set over them, which if they consent unto, he next asketh them (as a distinct question) whether they all give him a good testimony for his life, &c. Greg: Nazianz. orat. 31. commendeth Athanasius his calling, as being after the apostolical example, because he was chosen [Greek or Hebrew], by the suffrage of all the people. The council of Nice in their epistle to them of Alexandria appoint some to succeed into the vacant places [Greek or Hebrew], [Greek or Hebrew] so that they appear worthy, and the people chose them, Greg: Mag: Epist. lib. 9. cap. 74. clerum & populum singularum civitatum hortari festina, ut inter se dissentire non debeant, sed uno sibi consensu, una quaeque civitas consecrandum eligat sacerdotem, he that would have greater store of antiquity for this, may read Blondel. apol. pag. 379. to. 473.